Many individuals donate appreciated stocks or mutual funds to Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School. Such gifts, or other gifts involving securities, can have significant tax advantages over cash. Please contact the Advancement Office for more details on how to make such a gift.

A donor advised fund is a program of a public charity that allows you to make an irrevocable contribution and then recommend grants to qualified nonprofit organizations. To learn more, please contact your financial advisor or visit www.vdoh.org/DAF.

You can also utilize the DAF Direct to the right, and recommend funds from your donor-advised funds to Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School.

Some companies will match your gift, making your gift worth more while crediting you the total amount. A matching gift occurs when participating companies match (sometimes up to double or triple) the amount of dollars given to Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School by their employees and spouses, or retirees. The company matches the gift only after the donor has sent his or her gift to Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School along with the company's matching gift form. Certain companies will match capital campaign and endowment gifts as well as annual giving and scholarship gifts. To check if your employer has a matching gift program, ask your employer directly or use our HEPdata search below.

Please contact our Advancement Office if you are interested in any of the following opportunities:

Bonne Chance AuctionThis event in November is the single largest fundraiser at school. Volunteers are needed in a variety of capacities including acquisition, data entry, and set up.

Annual Giving AmbassadorThe primary goal of the Annual Giving Ambassador program is to advance our school for the benefit of our students and carry on the mission of Sacred Heart education for future generations. Ambassador communications do not necessarily include a request for monetary support, the main message is about participation.

Connectathon VolunteerEach year we ask parents, students, alums and staff members to come togetherto raise awareness of the importance of our Annual Givingcampaign. Connectathon volunteers:

Thank those who support our students’ education

Ask those who haven’t given yet this year for renewed support of our annual giving campaign

Enjoy the company of others in the VDOH community and complimentary refreshments

On December 18, 2015, the president signed into law the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015. The new law made the IRA charitable rollover retroactive to January 1, 2015, and will remain in effect for 2016 and beyond.

Under the recently reinstated law, you may move up to $100,000 from your IRA directly to a qualified charity such as ours without having to pay income taxes on the money.

The IRA charitable rollover rules are:

The donor must be age 70½ or older on the day of the gift.

The donor can transfer up to $100,000 directly from the donor’s IRA to one or more qualified charities. This opportunity applies only to IRAs and not to other types of retirement plans.

The donor does not receive any goods or services in return for the rollover gift in order to qualify for tax-free treatment.

The gift needs to be made by December 31 for the gift to qualify for that year. If you made a gift to a qualified charity of up to $100,000 directly from your IRA in 2015, your gift will qualify under the new law.